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Turkeys, bred in Norfolk, cover the facade of a London butcher's shop, 1929. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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Shop ’till you drop: a brief history of Christmas shopping. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

11th November 1918: An army lorry in a London street on Armistice Day, carrying jubilant passengers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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11 November 1918: The day the world turned upside down. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Agincourt was one of the major battles of the Hundred Years' War.

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Agincourt: what really happened. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Henry V of England. The Treaty if Troyes, signed in 1420, saw Henry named Charles's regent; by marrying the latter's daughter, Katherine, Henry secured his position as heir to the throne. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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A wayward prince? King Henry V's misspent youth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on a controversial term“As a racism row rumbles on, is it time to retire the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’?”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

One of many historic sites in Luxembourg. Larochette's castle dominates the town below.

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Travel toLuxembourg: rural beauty and Gothic grandeur. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'Yorktown' sustains a hit during the battle of Midway. The US aircraft carrier sank three days later but, by then, the Japanese had accepted that their attempt to land a war-winning blow had failed. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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How miraculous was the battle of Midway?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of King Henry V. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Henry V: 5 facts you might not know about the king's softer side. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black and white image of Russian soldiers using a canon

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Trial by fire: how a fortress siege changed the course of World War One. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Nichola Tallis

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“Margaret Beaufort wielded enormous power. She was a queen in all but name”: Nicola Tallis on the mother of the Tudors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The footprint of Old Sarum cathedral

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ExploreOld Sarum: the regal and the rotten. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1860 depiction of Wentworth Works steel manufacturer in Sheffield

Victorian

Why Britain punched above its weight

Tutankhamun's blue and gold funerary mask

Ancient Egypt

Tutankhamun unmasked: 7 intriguing truths about the pharaoh and his treasures

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6 novels that captured life in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A contemporary portrait of scientist Ada Lovelace

Victorian

History heroKonnie Huq chooses Ada Lovelace (1815–52)

King John out hunting

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8 things you (probably) didn’t know about medieval elections. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A fruit and vegetable market, painted by Joachim Beuckelaer.

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A brief history of veganism in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Extinction Rebellion take over Trafalgar Square, London, in protest on 16 October 2019. (Photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

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From William Wordsworth to Extinction Rebellion: a history of Britain's green activists. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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5 Georgian ghost hoaxes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Inside the fort was a famous spring, St Helen’s Well, today Robin Hood’s Well. (© Bill Henderson)

Anglo-Saxon

Brunanburh: Where did the battle that saved England take place?

Portrait of Marie Antoinette in deep mourning, while in prison

Georgian

The final days of Marie Antoinette

Margaret Thatcher surrounded by British soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment, during a surprise visit to the Falkland Islands, January 1983. Britain has "ceased to be a nation in retreat," declared the prime minister in the wake of the victory over Argentine forces.

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How the Falklands War fired up Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1651, Charles Prince of Wales (1630 - 1685) (later King Charles II of England) meets Sir Henry Lee near Oxford during the Civil War, while escaping after the Battle of Worcester.

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How Charles II put Britain back together after the Civil War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

War criminal? William the Conqueror shown on horseback in the Bayeux Tapestry. The king's Harrying of the North was a military success but a human catastrophe – one that even appalled chroniclers traditionally sympathetic to the Norman regime. (Photo by Bridgeman)

Anglo-Saxon

Was William the Conqueror a war criminal? The brutal story of the Harrying of the North

A cartoon from 1862 shows a pair 'garroters' attacking a victim. (Photo by The Cartoon Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Gangs and knife-crime fears: how has Britain responded through history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Giant of literature: A page from the 'Beowulf' manuscript. The story is fictional but some of the characters within it were real people, and others were believed to be the ancestors of Anglo-Saxon and Danish kings. (Photo by Alamy)

Anglo-Saxon

Beowulf: The Anglo-Saxons' action hero

Half-timbered medieval cottages, Water Street, Lavenham, Suffolk, England, (Photo by Getty Images)

Tudor

History explorerA wealth of history: Laversham, Sulfolk

William Dalrymple is an award-winning writer and historian based in India. (Photo by Bikramjt Bose)

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“This was a corporation that could topple kings”: William Dalrymple on the East India Company. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British journalist Tom Wintringham (1898–1949), the candidate for the Christian Socialist Commonwealth Party. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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History heroPeter Tatchell chooses Tom Wintringham (1898–1949). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The murder of Thomas Becket

Medieval

Q&A: What happened to the assassins who killed Thomas Becket?

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